Marketing Secrets with Russell Brunson - Why Does The Fuel You Eat Actually Matter For An Entrepreneur?

Episode Date: September 15, 2017

My thoughts as I detox from Lucky Charms. On today's episode Russell talks about the effects of putting negative fuel in your body instead of positive. Here are some of the informative things you will hear today: What started Russell on a carb binge that he couldn't stop. Why eating junk will make you feel like junk. And why putting positive fuel in your body will help you compete in business and you'll be more able to get a billion things done in shorter period of time. So listen here to find out why putting negative fuel in your body could be making your work suffer. Transcript - https://marketingsecrets.com/blog/why-does-the-fuel-you-eat-actually-matter-for-an-entrepreneur Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up everybody? It's a late night. Late night, I'm marking Seekers podcast out in the pool house before I head into bed. I got something for you. So, the big question is this. How are entrepreneurs like us, who didn't cheat and take on venture capital,

who are spending money from our own pockets, how do we market in a way that lets us get our products and our services and the things that we believe in out to the world, and yet still remain profitable. That is the question and this podcast will give you the answer. My name is Russell Brunson and welcome to Marketing Secrets. All right, everybody. So it's been a fun day, long day, and I'm beat up and tired and ready to go pass out.

But out here trying to get a bottle of water because I'm parched. We're about probably three or four weeks away from our kitchen being done with our remodel so we can move back into our house, which is going to be oh so nice. I cannot wait. But so typically, it's interesting. This is kind of an off topic sort of staunt topic though. So typically, um, when, uh, when I'm doing everything throughout the day, um, I really, really, really, really, really good. So, um, I do intermittent fasting. So I don't eat breakfast in the morning. I take about a billion vitamins and supplements in the

morning. I feel like I'm glowing. I feel tons of energy. I feel really, really good when I do intermittent fasting, so I don't eat breakfast in the morning. I take about a billion vitamins and supplements in the morning. I feel like I'm glowing. I feel tons of energy. I feel really, really good. What I do eat during the day, Melanie, my assistant, makes me this huge salad. It's like a 1,600-calorie salad with spinach and kale and salmon and peppers and oil and avocados. It's like the most amazing thing. I eat that all day long, and then I'm full. I'm not hungry the rest of the day and and then at night i'll eat just whatever my wife

makes i'll eat the meat and the vegetables out of it and that's it and i feel really good and like i get through the days and it's just like i can get so much stuff done um i was joking on the earlier podcast about funnel years how how uh funnel yeah, each funnel day is, or each year is a, each day is a funnel year. Anyway, how much stuff we can get done in a day. Anyway, today was Saturday, and my wife had a church thing that she was gonna be at all day, so I was playing dad, so this morning I woke up and started good, and then my wife bought Lucky Charms.

Lucky Charms! I don't know about you, but that is by far the best cereal in the history of cereal mankind. In fact, when I was a kid, we used to Lucky Charms, Lucky Charms! I don't know about you, but that is by far the best cereal in the history of cereal mankind. In fact, when I was a kid, we used to Lucky Charms, then we found out we could get Marshmallow Mateys, which came in the bigger bags. And every year for Christmas, we'd get one sugar cereal from Santa Claus,

so we always wanted Marshmallow Mateys. So we all, all the kids in my family, we'd get a big old bag, our own bag of Marshmallow Mateys. And we'd get like a salad bowl and fill the whole thing up with the marshmallow mateys. And spend like five hours eating all the oats out of it. And then at the end, drinking all the milk with the marshmallows

is insanely good. In fact, last year for Christmas, I trained my kids on how to do that because the tradition has now been officially passed on. Anyway, for some insane reason, my wife didn't just buy marshmallow mateys. She bought freaking Lucky Charms, which are the best thing ever. She bought two boxes of them.

So today I'm like eating my supplements. I look over and I see a box of Lucky Charms. I'm like, I don't got enough willpower to stop myself from Lucky Charms. So yeah, I just, I don't, that and cookie dough, I can't say no. I won't even attempt it. So I don't even try it. So I'm like done. Boom. One bowl of Lucky Charms, two bowl of Lucky Charms. And then for me, it's like a slippery slope. I'm like, well, I'm already bowl of Lucky Charms, two bowl of Lucky Charms, and then for me it's like a slippery slope. I'm like, well, I'm already on a carb binge today, I might as well just go all out. So then, yeah, so then for lunch I was like,

hey kids, let's go out to eat. So we went to a hamburger place, we had hamburgers and french fries, and I ate everybody else's french fries, they were really, really good, and then I came home, and then I was like, barely came, my eyes opened, like my whole body's like shutting down.

I'm like, can you keep my eyes open? And then my wife gets home and she's tired. She's been, you know, it's emotional thing all day, crying her eyes out and everything. And then kids are like, we're hungry. And like, uh, and like, we want pizza. I'm like, sweet. Get my phone. I ordered Domino's pizza and chicken wings.

And like, that was like amazingly good. And then, yeah. And then tonight there's a wedding receptionist went over and they had cheesecake. So like today was a carb to head down to the carve uh but it's funny because i am now walking back in to go to bed and i just want to this is kind of more mostly for me hopefully you guys as well i feel like crap my voice hurts my throat hurts my brain hurts i have like brain fog i can't focus i can't concentrate i feel like like, oh, my body hurts. Like my legs hurt.

I get just like, oh, feeling. Um, and I know that there's a lot of entrepreneurs who are like, that's the fuel you'll put in your body most days. Like if I put that much, if I put that fuel in my body, I don't know how I could get anything done. Like I got nothing done today other than playing with the kids. Like I feel like crap. I feel like garbage. Um, anyway, so yeah, I just wanted to put it out there because first off for me to remember like what I feel like now, a lot of times we associate the pleasure on

our taste buds with the food we eat. Like we lucky charms are like this day so good, but I want to like consciously remember this, like, Oh, I feel right now because I want to associate this with carbs. So I quit eating them because God, they just thrash you and destroy you and make you feel consciously remember this like oh i feel right now because i want to associate this with carbs so i quit eating them because god they just thrash you and destroy you and make you feel like garbage and then yeah so those you guys i'm competing against please keep eating crap i love it makes makes so i can get done more in a week than you get done in a day but for the rest of you guys who i'm coaching and consulting i want you to to succeed um look at your diet. Seriously, shift how you're eating. If you're trying to figure out how to eat for energy, a couple things I'd recommend. Number one, Google intermittent

fasting. That'll change your entire day around. Even if you're not trying to lose weight, just from shifting so you don't eat in the morning, you eat fats in the afternoon and carbs at night. It'll keep your energy high throughout the day so you can compete and do well and then um the bulletproof diet is really good and most of you guys know i'm mormon so i don't drink coffee um but there's different ways to make that and anyway dave asprey his whole mission and stuff is really really good i love his stuff um minus the coffee so yeah but you can do bullet, other things in the morning if you want, or you can do coffee if that's what you like to do as well. But that whole concept of high fats,

I strongly, strongly believe in that. It's been a huge thing that's helped me succeed as an entrepreneur. And then the last one is Anthony DiClemente's Biohacker's Guide, which is another amazing book. It gives 10 ways to eat for energy and other things for energy as well. So anyway, it's just some help, you guys.

If you're struggling, if you're hard to get through the days and it's hard to focus and have concentration and you want to just go out there and thrash everyone, think about the fuel you're putting in your body because this right now, how I feel right now, is a testament of what lucky charms the devil. I think I also had lucky charms for dinner. I may have had some for lunch too.

Yeah. Box number two is almost gone. Look at this thing. So I was watching the day. God, lucky charms. You kidding me? That's why I don't like my wife to go shopping. Sometimes she buys all the good stuff, but I can't say no to anyway. So just think about that. The feel you're putting your body is affecting how you're,. So this business is a game. It's competition. And I know that the athletes out there understand that, but a lot of people who maybe not have been in athletics don't understand that. You're in a competition.

You're competing with people like me who are obsessed with this kind of stuff. And what you put on your body doesn't matter. So look at that. Figure it out. Even if you don't want to lose weight, it doesn't matter about losing weight. It's about keeping your brain sharp eight, 10, 12 hours a day so you can get a lot of crap done

and accomplish what you want to do so you can serve the people you need to serve. So there you go, guys. Hope that helps. We're going to bed tonight. I'm going to crash and tomorrow we'll be back on cue because I got a big week coming up. If I survive this week,

it's going to be 90% diet, 10% motivation, 30% inspiration, and a whole bunch of happy thoughts in the middle. Yeah, that's not 100%. That's way over. Anyway, it's going to be fun. All right, guys, I'm out. See you tomorrow. Bye.

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